October 12, 2007

This came up a long time ago when we first added a non-english feed. The answer was fedora is used, read and developed in many languages (some as gross as fortran). We are supportive of diversity and that includes language diversity (as gross as things like fortran are).

October 11, 2007

Workish:

Among miscellaneous items with which I play/work I’ve been messing with repoview and python-bugzilla and genshi. Mostly I was looking at making how people find out more about any given package in fedora easier. I came up with a repoview mockup that I liked based partially on the default repoview format and partially on the packagedb layout. All this is fine and good but I liked that the debian package pages have a link to open bugs for any given package. So, playing with python-bugzilla allowed me to write a short cgi that takes only a package name and it outputs the list of new/assigned/modified/needinfo bugs for that package in fedora. Here’s an example output. It’s obviously nothing fancy. However, that’s the point.

What I’d like to do is setup the apache redirects to allow us to have something like:

http://bugs.fedoraproject.org/yum point to that cgi + the right get-string. That way there’s an obvious way for any web page or app to refer to the open bugs for a given package without having to resort to a tinyurl or a god-awful bugzilla url.

Anyway – just somethings I was messing with.

Lifeish:

So, we closed on a house on tuesday. Meeting with all sorts of folks on thursday about the house. Moving on saturday. It’s been a very full week for me. I’m looking forward to moving in and having my life settle back down in the general direction of normalcy.

seth, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always.

Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to “catch up” with yourself.

Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor. You can “size up” situations and take in information rapidly. However, you must then subject that data to being classified and organized which causes you to “lose touch” with the immediacy of the problem.

Your logical and methodical nature hamper you in this regard though in the long run it may work to your advantage since you “learn from experience” and can go through the process more rapidly on subsequent occasions.

You remain predominantly functional in your orientation and practical. Abstraction and theory are secondary to application. In keeping with this, you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the “larger whole.”

With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can “see where you want to go” and even be able to “tell yourself,” but find that you are “fighting yourself” at the darndest times.

I agree about ‘fighting myself’ and I agree about ‘catching up’ all the time. I also heartily agree with the problem of losing touch with the immediacy of the problem when I it gets into more minutiae. That explains why I’ve started on a lot of tools and gotten the ball rolling but needed other people’s help to finish out the details.